Patrick Lawrence: This Isn’t Fascism
Political confusion and deluded notions of fascism colored Max Azzarello’s tragic death by self-immolation.
Patrick Lawrence: The Impotence of Antony Blinken
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Antony Blinken is now in China for his second such journey as secretary of state and his third encounter with senior Chinese officials:…
Patrick Lawrence: Becoming Who We Are
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost The following is an edited, amended, and condensed version of a speech I delivered in Zurich’s environs earlier this month. The occasion was…
Patrick Lawrence: Could the Russians Seize Congress?
The Russian have been coming, off and on, for seven-plus decades. While these conjured imaginings may be laughable, the consequences of a culture of Cold War fear are far from…
Patrick Lawrence: ‘Automated Murder’: Israel’s ‘AI’ in Gaza
By Patrick Lawrence and Cara Marianna / Original to ScheerPost ZURICH—“Technological change, while it helps humanity meet the challenges nature imposes upon us, leads to a paradigm shift: It leaves…
Patrick Lawrence: Europe’s Identity Crisis
As European leaders continue to import a version of U.S. militarism, rearmament will cost the Continent its postwar social contract.
Patrick Lawrence: Imperium: Decline on the Way to Fall
The piece discusses the decline of American dominance, highlighting the failures in Ukraine and the unravelling of the U.S.-led international order. It details rising multipolarity and critiques American imperialism, particularly…
Patrick Lawrence: Late-Imperial Duplicities
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost As I was saying to Diocletian over Prosecco just last week, it is hard to run an empire these days. You have to…
Patrick Lawrence: Authorized Atrocities
Israel’s lawlessness has a history that those in the West share with the apartheid state.
Patrick Lawrence: The Russians in Ukraine
Recent disclosures provide an incomplete inventory of the West’s covert activities in Ukraine. There is more than we have been told, surely.
Patrick Lawrence: Old Man Shouting, The American Empire is Doing Great! But It Isn’t
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Democratic elites and the reporters who clerk for them were effusively approving of Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech last Thursday evening—not…
Patrick Lawrence: The CIA in Ukraine — The NY Times Gets a Guided Tour
The New York Times recently ran a story called "The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin." Patrick Lawrence writes that these "secrets" only contained what the…
Patrick Lawrence: Guilt and Responsibility
The Case of Germany and Israel
Patrick Lawrence: Corporate Media Is an Arm of Power; We Must Build an Alternative
By Margaret Flowers / Popular Resistance In his new book, ¨Journalists and Their Shadows,¨ Patrick Lawrence describes his experience over decades as an editor and foreign correspondent of watching the…
Patrick Lawrence: The Crisis at The New York Times
From Israeli Propaganda to Page One.